Event Title
Woodstock to Waterford
Location
Oxford-Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
Start Date
7-8-1979 6:52 PM
Document Type
Report (PDF/Word)
F-Scale Rating
F4
Classification
Confirmed
Description
The second and most damaging of two violent tornadoes to touch down in Southern Ontario on the evening of August 7th. As the Stratford to Bright Tornado was lifting off, a new tornado was beginning to form about 6.5km WNW of Woodstock near Golspie. It track ESE through the SW end of Woodstock, causing significant damage to the area. It crossed Highway 401 at the Highway 59 interchange and continued on to Oxford Centre where it levelled most of the hamlet. The tornado continued ESE to New Durham, around where a nearly 2km wide swath of damage was found along with apparent damage from a satellite tornado which probably tracked for a number of kilometres beside the parent vortex. The farming communities of Kelvin and Vanessa also took direct blows from the violent storm and many buildings were left in shambles or destroyed to the ground. Crossing Highway 24, the storm rolled into the town of Waterford and caused serious damage to a number of buildings in the downtown business area. Continuing on a few kilometres past Waterford a number of other rural properties were damaged before the tornado lifted over 50 km from its point of touchdown.
F4 August 7, 1979 Woodstock-Waterford, Oxford-Brant.docx (8 kB)
August 7, 1979 Woodstock Tornado.avi (20585 kB)
August 7, 1979 Oxford Ctr Epilogue P Chen.pdf (93 kB)
August 7, 1979 Woodstock (Docs in Working maps and papers).pdf (9518 kB)
August 7, 1979 Woodstock (Preliminary Assessment).pdf (782 kB)
August 7, 1979 Woodstock Handling of watches and warnings pt1.pdf (10335 kB)
August 7, 1979 Woodstock Handling of watches and warnings pt2.pdf (7371 kB)
August 7, 1979 Woodstock Index to NP Clippings 54-191.pdf (5520 kB)
August 7, 1979 Woodstock Rough Notes and Work by T. K. Won and Billie Taylor.pdf (29114 kB)
August 1979 From the Press, Night the Nature Roared.pdf (36121 kB)
TRWP_2-The_Woodstock_Tornadoes_Event.pdf (6886 kB)
Track Map.JPG (3310 kB)
Woodstock to Waterford
Oxford-Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
The second and most damaging of two violent tornadoes to touch down in Southern Ontario on the evening of August 7th. As the Stratford to Bright Tornado was lifting off, a new tornado was beginning to form about 6.5km WNW of Woodstock near Golspie. It track ESE through the SW end of Woodstock, causing significant damage to the area. It crossed Highway 401 at the Highway 59 interchange and continued on to Oxford Centre where it levelled most of the hamlet. The tornado continued ESE to New Durham, around where a nearly 2km wide swath of damage was found along with apparent damage from a satellite tornado which probably tracked for a number of kilometres beside the parent vortex. The farming communities of Kelvin and Vanessa also took direct blows from the violent storm and many buildings were left in shambles or destroyed to the ground. Crossing Highway 24, the storm rolled into the town of Waterford and caused serious damage to a number of buildings in the downtown business area. Continuing on a few kilometres past Waterford a number of other rural properties were damaged before the tornado lifted over 50 km from its point of touchdown.